Maternal deaths from illegal abortions.I enjoyed the recent Catholic Insight; I was especially struck and touched by Michael Coren's "Conversion" (pp. 10-11). It may interest your readers that I have put together a sort of "memo" about "Maternal deaths from illegal abortions," to keep handy in case I need to refute misconceptions, mistakes or lies that claim that since with illegal abortion (back street, coat hangers, pregnant women die in huge numbers) we have to leave the current status of abortion in our country untouched. The facts and figures in this memo we have all read and heard frequently but sometimes it takes a bit of research to come up with just what we are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . Recently, it has been my experience that pro-abortion speakers (one CFRB CFRB Christian Fiction Review Blog CFRB Canada's First Rogers Batteryless (radio station) CFRB Community Forest Restoration Board talk show host and one political election candidate) have boldly made this outrageous claim. Some pro-life people who engage in discussion and debate with the public, either in writing or in person might find a copy of this memo useful. Here are the statistics: The number of deaths from illegal abortion was declining markedly prior to abortion being legalized. Reported deaths from illegal abortion in Canada (source: Statistics Canada, 84-203). 1957 32 deaths 1963 25 deaths 1966 13 deaths 1969 11 deaths And from the Atlanta based "Centers for Disease Control U.S.A." 1940 1,682 deaths 1950 316 deaths 1962 205 deaths 1970 128 deaths It is difficult to falsify falsify, v to forge; to give a false appearance to anything, as to falsify a record. the official statistics because on the death certificate (signed by a doctor), the doctor is asked (if the deceased was female), whether the death occurred during pregnancy, including abortion and ectopic pregnancy ectopic pregnancy or extrauterine pregnancy Condition in which a fertilized egg is imbedded outside the uterus (see fertilization). Early on, it may resemble a normal pregnancy, with hormonal changes, amenorrhea, and development of a placenta. . In Ontario the death certificate is form #16 and the pertinent point is #12. Another argument against the claim that tens of thousands of pregnant women died from illegal abortion comes from doctors who later confessed that the statistics (300,000 deaths) they were spreading were fabricated. Dr. Bernard Nathanson Bernard Nathanson (born 31 July 1926 in New York) is a medical doctor and pro-life activist from New York. Nathanson graduated in 1949 from McGill University Facility of Medicine in Montreal.[2] He has been licensed to practice in New York state since 1952. of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y., one of the founders of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL NARAL National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League ) of the U.S.A., admitted that he and his NARAL colleagues were lying. "We pulled that number out of thin air. We knew that it was a powerful and compelling lie and we used it shamelessly" (Aborting America, New York, Doubleday, 1979, p. 193). Newcastle, ON |
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